Spanish word
jerga
/ˈxeɾɡa/
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- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Level
- B2
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- slang
- jargon; slang
- straw pallet, coarse cotton fringe, (in New Mexican Spanish) any floor covering or mat
- cant(jargon of a particular class or subgroup)
- floorcloth(cloth for cleaning floors)Mexico
- jargon(technical terminology unique to a particular subject)
- language(vocabulary of a particular field)
- lingo(language peculiar to a particular group or region)
- pallet(straw bed)
- parlance(A certain way of speaking (or using words))
- piffle(nonsense, foolish talk)
- speak(jargon/terminology)
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